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[240volt]

Milde and Marrett - what a combo those two were.

Leon Milde, much loved player in his days but most probably the worst kick I’ve ever seen.
Remember him missing one from the goal square at Alberton oval one day.

 

[backtozero]

Was I wrong to tip us?

 

[Long live PAFC]

We win if Melbourne have a come down after the close game against the pies. Otherwise they’ll be too good and have been much more consistent than us.

Melbourne play a similar congested forward half game to us and will try and force use long down the line to Gawn, Lever and May. I would be loading up on flankers for us to encourage a rebounding, running transition game, like what Geelong and Collingwood do to us. Sweet and Visentini to crash into Gawn all day, then have one push forward and one sit behind the ball. Then sub one. Evans to sub, although he isn’t a great sub and better to play a whole game.

So Liddy for Mead. Evans for Boak. Sweet for Finlayson. JHF for Moraes.

 

[portly]

Sweet has to play. Otherwise no talls bar 1 fwd.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Leon Milde, much loved player in his days but most probably the worst kick I’ve ever seen.
Remember him missing one from the goal square at Alberton oval one day.

Then he would kick one from boundary line in the pocket.

Saw him a couple of years ago, he hasn't gotten any smaller.

 

[Windy Cindy]

We win if Melbourne have a come down after the close game against the pies. Otherwise they’ll be too good and have been much more consistent than us.

Melbourne play a similar congested forward half game to us and will try and force use long down the line to Gawn, Lever and May. I would be loading up on flankers for us to encourage a rebounding, running transition game, like what Geelong and Collingwood do to us. Sweet and Visentini to crash into Gawn all day, then have one push forward and one sit behind the ball. Then sub one. Evans to sub, although he isn’t a great sub and better to play a whole game.

So Liddy for Mead. Evans for Boak. Sweet for Finlayson. JHF for Moraes.

They are almost at full strength.. be a good win and go to show we might have turned the corner..get smashed and surely he’s sacked immediately./

 

[danman69]

They are almost at full strength.. be a good win and go to show we might have turned the corner..get smashed and surely he’s sacked immediately./

Wishful thinking, unfortunately even with a smashing Stinkley will be seeing the year out

 

[Portmagpies36]

Mead should have been omitted

He is undroppable

 

[Portmagpies36]

Finlayson had to go despite his talent his efforts without the ball were about as bad as it gets.
SPP and DBJ very very lucky to survive.

 

[Ah12]

Extremely small forward line but Finlayson and Lord were offering nothing so shouldnt be much of a loss there. Running the ball up the ground like we did against Hawks will hopefully be the tactic.

Im not expecting a win and think Melbourne are in much better form than us.

 

[philthy05]

Is there a betting market for melb intercept marks?

They’ll be a few lol

 

[all seeing eye]

Is there a betting market for melb intercept marks?

They’ll be a few lol

Shaping up to go chaos ground ball I reckon. Smaller forwardline to negate Dees inetrcept marking strength. If it rains that maybe helpful as well.

 

[Addy23]

Shaping up to go chaos ground ball I reckon. Smaller forwardline to negate Dees inetrcept marking strength. If it rains that maybe helpful as well.

You beat me to it. I have no issues with going with just MG. Dirty ball entries on the ground to negate the impact of Lever, May and Gawn. Of course, if we decide to bomb it in high and long then it'd be ludicrous to go with just MG.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

You beat me to it. I have no issues with going with just MG. Dirty ball entries on the ground to negate the impact of Lever, May and Gawn. Of course, if we decide to bomb it in high and long then it'd be ludicrous to go with just MG.

And if it gets tight late in the game bombing it to Gawn is exactly what we will do.

 

[TeeKray]

It's hard to deny that the forward line on paper is beneath the standard of an AFL team and the numbers back it up - we average a score of 56 points in our last 5 games.

Basically our only path to victory is to completely dominate the game and even then that path is narrow as we saw against GWS.

 

[SureBuddy]

It's hard to deny that the forward line on paper is beneath the standard of an AFL team and the numbers back it up - we average a score of 56 points in our last 5 games.

Basically our only path to victory is to completely dominate the game and even then that path is narrow as we saw against GWS.

We desperately need a fit and firing Luko and Marshall next year.

 

[bomberclifford]

We desperately need a fit and firing Luko and Marshall next year.

 

[True__Believer]

That forwardline is about as unthreatening as it gets. With MG as the only genuine marketing target he'll be double teamed out of the game.

A winning score will require Rioli to kick 5 and the non-scoring midfielders to unexpectedly chip in with a couple. Also 3.1 from Rozee at halfback, not 1.3, and Burton/Farrell can't miss when they get a handball 55m out.

I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago. This current forward line is by some distance the worst we have had in the AFL era. In fact it is the worst I can remember in my 45 odd years following the team.

 

[The Hobo]

We desperately need a fit and firing Luko and Marshall next year.

Even with them, it's a pretty lacklustre forward line.

Our forward line has been poor for nearly a decade truth be told. We've relied on Dixon, who struggled to play a full season, and even when he did - never really hit the goals he should have. Not once did he kick 50 goals in a season for us.

Gray is the only elite forward we've had in the last 10 years. Nobody else is even close (Rioli at a push but has struggled to stay on the pitch)

 

[davesnothere]

I like the idea of 2 rucks against Gawn. Relentless tag-team off the bench.

Rotations being sucked up prevents that happening.

One ruck and fight it out until the end.

 

[Anyonebutken]

Some overating of Melbourne happening around the place they are 5 wins like us and like us they are just average and often struggle to run out games. I see us getting over the line by a goal or 2

 

[PJ Power]

Even with them, it's a pretty lacklustre forward line.

Our forward line has been poor for nearly a decade truth be told. We've relied on Dixon, who struggled to play a full season, and even when he did - never really hit the goals he should have. Not once did he kick 50 goals in a season for us.

Gray is the only elite forward we've had in the last 10 years. Nobody else is even close (Rioli at a push but has struggled to stay on the pitch)

The best forward line we had in the Hinkley era, was Schulz, Westhoff, Monfries, Wingard, Gray and White 2014.

 

[bringbackbucky]

Rotations being sucked up prevents that happening.

One ruck and fight it out until the end.

I'd like to see them give it a go, and figure out a different way of doing their rotations. More fwd resting for mids, less breaks for half backs etc.

 

[davesnothere]

I'd like to see them give it a go, and figure out a different way of doing their rotations. More fwd resting for mids, less breaks for half backs etc.

I’d actually like to see the AFL exempt Rucks from the rotation count.

Guys that are 100kgs plus spending 90% game time going from physical contest to physical contest simply isn’t fair.

 

[Chewy316]

Even with them, it's a pretty lacklustre forward line.

Our forward line has been poor for nearly a decade truth be told. We've relied on Dixon, who struggled to play a full season, and even when he did - never really hit the goals he should have. Not once did he kick 50 goals in a season for us.

Gray is the only elite forward we've had in the last 10 years. Nobody else is even close (Rioli at a push but has struggled to stay on the pitch)

Dixon was All-Australian in 2020 and arguably the best KPF for the two years of 2020-21.